DailyKenn.com — Cinema is not among the notable assets in the collection of Japanese cultural treasures. That is assuming, of course, one doesn't rate Godzilla vs The Smog Monster along side, say, Gone With The Wind or The Godfather.
Nonetheless, the beloved Godzilla and nemesis Kong were evoked in a student newspaper op-ed comparing two candidates vying for Standford University's student government. The parody piece was published in The Stanford Daily.
Here's the glitch: Both candidates are black.
Comparing a black candidate to Godzilla or Kong is akin to wearing blackface to the Academy Awards. It just isn't done.
In an effort to snuff out the flames of racism before they set the entire campus ablaze, the editorial staff of The Standford Daily will undergo anti-bias training.
Take aways...
• While the woke are relieved that no offenses will go unaddressed on Stanford's campus, scores of blacks are being gunned, knifed, and strangled throughout America's negrosphere every day. And no one seems to care.
What's worse: Those of us who do care are somehow considered "racists." Go figure.
I find that double standard to be reprehensible.
• Woke-ism is a akin to a fundamentalist religious cult whose tenets must be observed. It's also akin to a witch hunt where even the slightest irregularity — real or imagined — makes a convenient excuse to burn the "witches" or, worse yet, forced to endure some sort of sensitivity training.
Excerpted from campusreform.org ▼
Stanford University’s student newspaper sent a controversial tweet about two Black students. Now, it is suspending its Twitter account and requiring the entire masthead to take anti-bias training.
As editor in chief of The Stanford Daily Erin Woo explained in a letter, the paper's humor section, The Stanford Occasionally, sent a tweet linking the student government elections to the movie “Godzilla vs. Kong," which was at the time a popular recent release.
Woo said the tweet was riffing off an alleged conflict between “two candidates, both of whom are Black, as a conflict between Kong and Godzilla” — a move that was deemed racist due to “the anti-Black history of the King Kong figure as a hyper-sexualized caricature of Black men.”
“I am so sorry for the harm it has caused the Black community and the students referenced in the tweet,” she wrote. “I also apologize that it took students from the Black community to raise concerns before The Daily took action on the tweet, and that our initial response to the community member who flagged the tweet was hasty and insensitive.”
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